Cuba News

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet.

Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Keith Mullins and producer-recording engineer Jamie Foulds, both multiple East Coast Music Award winners in their respective fields, will lead participants in the workshop, March 22 & 23 at Soundpark Studios in Sydney, which is owned by Foulds.

Cuba accepted a proposal by the European Union to open negotiations on a new political accord, saying on Thursday it was willing to discuss human rights as part of discussions that would end what it considers a one-sided relationship with Europe.

As all of you already know, the situation in Venezuela is not getting better. Following orders directly from Havana, the regime of Cuba-puppet dictator Nicolas Maduro continues its heavy-handed repression of pro-democracy protestors.

Everywhere you look in the West, you find political pygmies rather than statesmen.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro stands in a convertible limousine next to first lady Cilia Flores as security guards stand on the sides of the car during a military parade commemorating the one year anniversary of the death of Venezuela's former President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 5, 2014.

If too many people get sucked in by the current, distorted media coverage of events unfolding now in Ukraine, then there's a good chance life will get very ugly for a lot of innocent people, since one of the logical end points is the use of nuclear weapons.

Under the direction of Chris Younghoon Kim, the Cornell Symphony Orchestra will return to the Bailey Hall stage at 8 p.m. Friday in a concert featuring two works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania Leon, as well as the co-winners of the 10th annual Cornell Concerto Competition.

PUERTO PADRE, Cuba. Within the systematic scarcity and increasing cost of daily life, the last week was marked by gaps in supplies.

HAVANA, Cuba, March 5 Cuban President Raul Castro arrived in Venezuela on Wednesday to participate in the commemorative tribute to Bolivarian leader Hugo Chavez on the first anniversary of his death.

Russia's flagship airline Aeroflot said on Wednesday it had sacked a pilot after pre-flight checks showed he was drunk ahead of a long-haul internal flight.

HAVANA>> The business ideas have ranged from a bikini franchise to a peanut farm, restaurants, and design firms for software and home interiors.

Above: A Vilma Espin Sandwich. A year earlier the world's most lavishly-funded intelligence agency crafted the foreign policy of the world's guardian against communism on the solemn word of this Bacardi Duchess that: the gentlemen sandwiching her had NO COMMUNIST SYMPATHIES WHATSOEVER!!! A few months earlier Vilma Espin helped arrange the famous ... (more)

Art is going to bat for books, thanks to an upcoming Pittsburg Rotary Club event that will raise money for club literacy programs in local schools.

On 28 February 2008, the Havana regime signed, as a propaganda maneuver, the United Nations Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

VLADIMIR PUTIN, THE WORLD'S LAST TRUE STATESMAN John Chuckman Everywhere you look in the West, you find political pygmies rather than statesmen.

For the third consecutive year Cuba's reorganized sugar industry is failing to perform up to expectations, increasing pressure on the government to open up the once proud sector to foreign investment.

Perhaps the "Cuba Experts" here in the U.S. should ask their employers in Havana to lay off the "reforms" a bit.

The peace delegation of Colombia's oldest living rebel group, the FARC, announced that they will continue to negotiate with the Colombian government through the congressional elections scheduled to begin Sunday March 9. FARC negotiator, Jesus Emilio Carvajalino, alias "Andres Paris," said that their proposal to continue negotiating will "enrich all ... (more)

"Gosh! But a hard-line U.S. policy will push the Castros further into the arms of Venezuela!" "Venezuela's problems are "precisely why Cuba has tried - in its own prickly, nationalistic way - to open the door to the US, and why the US needs to move forward rapidly with its rapprochement [to Cuba] ...If the US can ease the sense of insecurity that's ... (more)